Partner

Geoff Busch

Partner, Tāmaki Makaurau | Auckland

LLB (First Class Hons), BA, University of Otago

Expertise

Banking and finance

Capital raising

Climate Change

Infrastructure and projects

Insolvency and restructuring

Private equity and venture capital

Environment, social and governance

Contact

d: +64 9 338 8301

m: +64 21 484 184

e: geoff.busch@al.nz

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Geoff is Anderson Lloyd’s Board Chair and heads the firm’s Banking & Finance team.

He is one of New Zealand’s leading project finance lawyers, acting regularly for sponsors and financers on projects across a range of sectors, with a particular focus on renewables and infrastructure (including PPP) project financings. Geoff also advises on corporate, acquisition, structured and property finance transactions.

Geoff has practised in Auckland, London and Sydney for over 30 years, and since 2004 as a law firm partner. He is recognised as a leading New Zealand lawyer in project finance and/or banking and finance by the most recent editions of Chambers & Partners (Asia Pacific), The Legal 500 (Asia Pacific), IFLR 1000, Lexology Index and Best Lawyers. Best Lawyers (2020 edition) awarded him ‘Lawyer of the Year for Banking and Finance Law (Auckland)’.

Chambers & Partners (Asia Pacific) has reported that clients have praised Geoff as “an extremely good lawyer, with a very outcome-focused approach…[h]e understands the issues from the get-go and always delivers” and have described him as “a very experienced banking lawyer who is always effective at getting the deal done, and is responsive and calm under pressure”, and that peers report “he is a strong, technical and user-friendly lawyer”.

Legal 500 (Asia Pacific) has noted that Geoff is “a leading figure in the NZ banking market and clients have 100% confidence in his advice”, and that he is a “pragmatic dealmaker” and “an excellent operator who has worked exceptionally hard to establish a finance practice on a par with the largest players in the market”.

Geoff is a member of the Banking and Financial Services Law Association, the Institute of Finance Professionals New Zealand and the New Zealand Private Capital Association Inc., and is a past Chair of the NZ Documentation Working Group of the Asia Pacific Loan Market Association.

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